Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? (Virginia Woolf)

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Virginia Woolf

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